Discover the wealth, power and enduring legacy of Ancient Persia in British Museum.
With unprecedented loans from the National Museum of Iran, the Persepolis Museum and the Louvre, and a season of special events including films, music, guest lectures and workshops.
Exhibition dates 9 September 2005 – 8 January 200610.00 – 17.30 daily (last admission 16.45)Thursday & Friday 10.00 – 20.30 (last admission 19.45)
for more:
http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/persia/home.htm
Estelle Phillips offers some tipsTuesday September 6, 2005 The GuardianThe 10 golden rules
· Always leave a tutorial having agreed a date for the next one
· Send your supervisors a summary of each tutorial
· Make sure you do not have two supervisors with equal responsibility
· Do not become romantically involved with your supervisor
· Don't be too independent - you need to conform, too
· Discuss frequency of meetings with your supervisor at the beginning
· If anything is interfering with your work, let your supervisors know
· Establish exactly what is being criticised and how to put it right
· Ask direct but positively constructed questions
· Tell your supervisor what you are discovering as you are discovering it
Dr Estelle M Phillips is co-author with Professor DS Pugh of How to Get a PhD, which covers these subjects in detail.
Better known as the 'grey book'.
and
the Code of Practice for Graduate Research Degrees ( see above, in pdf)
http://www.grad.ucl.ac.uk/codes/research-code2004.pdfFYI,
Nasser
Google Earth
As some of you may know, recently Google has a new service which is named ‘Google Earth’.
It is a satellite image service that covers whole the Earth. you can navigate anywhere in the Earth, the significant of this service is that, you can change the view angle and see the city by oblique angle and see the topography in 3D. In major cities of Unites State even the buildings are modeled in 3D.
To use the service you need downloading its software from
here and install it in your computer.
For more, visit the Google Erath web page
hereThis service is great tool for students who working on regional and urban studies.
Here I add some pictures from this service
Middel East
New York
Fujiyama, Japan
South Bank, London
The city of Bosher, in the South of Iran
Enjoy it
Reza
Tradition and modernity in urban form
The INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR ON URBAN FORM (ISUF) will hold an international symposium at
The Prince's Foundation in London from
25-27 August 2005, co-hosted by the International Network for Traditional Building, Architecture and Urbanism (INTBAU) and The Prince's Foundation. The broad theme for the symposium will be
'Tradition and modernity in urban form'. It is hoped on this occasion to explore fruitful intersections between the interests, ideas, and expertise of members of ISUF and INTBAU. In addition to academic sessions and panels, a special morphological excursion through a portion of near-central London will be offered.
for more have look at
hereThe registration fee is expensive and I think it is late to apply, but probably DPU can find and buy the seminar proceedings
Reza
Publishing a post
When you receive your invitation, you should register in blogger with a username, if you don’t have any, and just fallow the instruction. You can use any username which is not already registered; if so just try another name, exactly like email.
After accepting the invitation and getting username; ‘dpu-phd’ will be access able in your account. You can publish your post by login in
www.blogger.comAnd going to ‘create new post’
You can have a look at the basic blogger help in here
http://help.blogger.com/bin/topic.py?topic=16and here
http://help.blogger.com/bin/topic.py?topic=17
Key Thinkers on Space and Place
It's Nasser's Idea to introduce interesting book here,
One the book that I have recently reviewed for my literature review is this one.
Key Thinkers on Space and Place (2004) Edited by: Phil Hubbard, Rob Kitchin and Gill Valentine.
Key Thinkers on Space and Place is a comprehensive guide to the latest work on space which includes 52 thinkers from Bauman, Castells, Foucault, Giddens, Said, Lefebvre to Soja.
Each entry is a short interpretative essay of 2,500 words. The advantage of this book is that; all chapter or essays are written in same format.
Each section includes:
biographical detail and theoretical context,
Spatial contribution,
key advance and controversies,
and as appendix for each section you can find the list of major works (books) of thinker and secondary sources and references
for more see
here
A book I am currently reading
Maximum City : Bombay Lost and Found
by
Suketu MehtaMehta, an Indian-born American, travels back to his city, Bombay where he documents the life of India's metropolis. Throughout his journey, Mehta takes us to the city's slums as well to its privilaged areas; to the good men and women of Bombay and to its villains; to the dancers and worshippers - just like a Bollywood movie.
Mehta writes in full depth with an ethnographic touch.
I highly recommend it.
Nasser
Blogging via MS Word
Now you can use Blogger right within Microsoft® Word. Just download and install the Blogger for Word add-in and a Blogger toolbar will be added to Word allowing you to:
find it
Here
Easy ....and we are all blogging
Reza,
Great work; hope all PhD-ers participate in this and cut the deficit in communication that DPU is not doing.
Nasser
